The Edinburgh Festival is due to kick off in a weeks, and yesterday tickets went on sale for the Fringe events in August

Or rather they didn’t, as the computer systems went down.  Computer says “no”?

Where’s The IT Crowd when you need them?  Did you try turning it off and back on again?

“No tickets have sold on the web today. Phone and counter sales are also operating slowly.  We don’t have any information on whether it will be operating tomorrow.
“It’s really disappointing, but we are doing everything we can to sell tickets as normal, if not quicker in the future.”

The Fringe sold 1.7 million tickets last year.  If they don’t sort things out soon, it will be a lot less for 2008.  This year’s event includes over 28,000 performances, 17,000 artists, and spans 261 venues.

Sounds like a way to spend summer - ticket or no ticket.

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